Russian Duma proposal to create internet censorship

[William Gardella]

The copyright aspect is very interesting, because Russia has certainly
been on the receiving end of much international disapproval of its lax
attitude to enforcement of foreign copyrights.  There has been
coverage of various attempts to go after the ubiquitous pirate DVD
vendors and the like in the physical territory of Russia; I have no idea
why such efforts apparently haven't extended to the Runet.

There also appears to be a lot less focus than in the EU on issues of
cybercrime and "cyberwarfare;" there does not appear to be much
legislative or prosecutorial interest in the problem of botnet operators
or virus makers, or in going after Internet users for their use or
possession of technologies to circumvent computer security.  That's not
necessarily a good or a bad thing--the discussion of these issues in
Western Europe is beginning to look like a gross overreaction--but it's
interesting.

Anne Schumann <anne.schumann at TILDE.LV> writes:

> Thank you, John, for the links. No need for exasperation, just opposing the mainstream opinion is so much more fun and, it seems, it improved the level of the discussion^^.
> Another interesting aspect of this bill is that it does not even try to deal with copyright issues. In western Europe there was much controversy around ACTA, but for the Runet (where you can basically download everything you want) copyright does not seem to be an issue. Why?
> As for the child pornography context, I remember reading an article, also in NG some time ago, about quite headless attempts to find and arrest alleged child abusers. My impression is that Russian government officials try to improve work on that topic, but obviously it is difficult in the Russian context.
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